Join our podcast host and former NYT Science Times editor David Corcoran as he discusses Undark’s recent deep dive into the $1.3 billion failure of a federally-mandated study of childhood disease with journalist Charlie Schmidt. Also on tap: Undark’s Tracker columnist, Paul Raeburn, joins Cross Sections co-anchor Aleszu Bajak to discuss recent controversies in science journalism, while Undark editorial intern Ian Evans explores efforts to bring rattlesnakes back to central Massachusetts.
Undark Podcast #3: The National Children’s Study & More
Top: The NIH set out in 2000 to conduct an unprecedented study of childhood disease. Fourteen years and $1.3 billion later, the enterprise was killed. What went wrong? Visual: Tim Robinson